African Studies: Statistics, Mapping & Research Collections

African Origins contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic.(website)

"...Columbia University Libraries' research collections on Africa south of the Sahara contain over 100,000 book titles & over 1,700 current serials in history, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, geoscience, literature, ethnomusiciology, and the visual arts..."(About Columbia African Studies)

"The Africana Studies and Research Center is comprised of nationally and internationally-recognized scholars and educators; socially-conscience intellectuals; and, students representing each of Cornell's undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges..." (Introduction website)

Offers access to some interesting links to African research websites. See "Search HUL Website, A-Z:". Click on "A-B", then click on "Africa-Libraries/Archives", then, "Africa".

"...Established in 1954, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University is the largest separate Africana collection in existence. Its scope is as wide as the continent of Africa itself; its subject matter ranges from art, history, literature, music, and religion to communications, management, and cooking...(Welcome)

Extensive list of Africa-related web resources compiled by Karen Fung, Curator, Africa Collection at Stanford University.

The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research awards fellowships intended to "facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations in areas related to Afro-American studies."